Cheetah Control Commands

These commands can be used to control Cheetah via NetCom or configuration files.  It is generally a better practice to use this commands through NetCom, as configuration files are geared more towards experiment setup.

-Delay <Time>

Pauses command processing for a specified amount of time.  This only delays command processing (which will make the program seem unresponsive); all other Cheetah operations are not affected.

Arguments

Time  The amount of time to delay in milliseconds.  This value must be 0 or greater.

-StartAcquisition

Starts acquiring data.  Data will be visible and available over NetCom.  None of this data will be saved.  Acquisition mode is intended to adjust settings before recording.  This command is ignored if Cheetah is already in acquisition or recording mode.

-StartRecording

Starts saving data to files.  It is recommended that you do not adjust any acquisition entity settings when Cheetah is in recording mode, as it may make comparisons between data before and after the change invalid.  If Cheetah is idle when this command is issued, acquisition is started as well.

-StopAcquisition

Stops acquiring data and puts Cheetah into an idle state if Cheetah is in acquisition mode.  In order to switch to idle when Cheetah is recording, you must first stop recording before issuing the stop acquisition command.  This command is ignored if Cheetah is already idle.

-StopRecording

Stops recording data to files and returns Cheetah to acquisition mode.  If Cheetah is not recording when this command is issued, it is ignored.